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Wed Dec 8 2010, 10:10am

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Wired.co.uk: TED Women day one: Where’s the ‘tech’?

Christine Ottery writes: “I caught up with Amber the day before the conference started. My head almost exploded. I think her project Geoloqi.com has the potential to be the next big thing after Facebook. It launches early next year. She told me that people who are self-mapping and self-tracking exist on the fringes of society — but they are bringing this to the mainstream”.

“This is self-actualisation cubed. For example, the essence of Geoloqi (although this is not all it can do) is “send messages to your future self”. When Amber was little, her dad taught her about space and time, wormholes, and she used to record tapes for her future self. Aaron (her business partner) did the same kind of thing but by mapping trips on his holidays (analogue style). Also, Geoloqi operates a very interesting business model: volunteer driven and crazily ambitious. So no multi-million dollar investments — just some properly passionate geeks in the US. Geoloqi differentiates itself massively from Foursquare and the rest by amping privacy to the max — it’s meant to be a seamless addition to our lives so it is time management driven rather then reward driven — but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun if you want it to be.”

Read the full article at wired.co.uk

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Fri Aug 27 2010, 10:10am

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CNN Tech: What’s Next for Check-in Apps?

John D Sutter writes: “An open-source group called geoloqi is trying to take that idea of an automated check-in radius even further.

The volunteer group of app developers, which is based in Portland, Oregon, is working on a website and app that will help trigger events if and when a person walks up to certain pre-set locations.

For example, you would be able to set the app to text you your shopping list when you went within a certain distance of your favorite grocery store.

Or, if you didn’t show up to work by 9 a.m., you could set the app automatically to e-mail your boss saying that you’re late, said Aaron Parecki, geoloqi’s founder.

“We’re calling these geonotes,” he said, “and these are location-based notes so you can leave yourself a note that is tied to a location and pops up when you’re there.”

The site and the app should be up and running in about a month, he said. Geoloqi won’t be a social network, exactly, but it could be integrated into Foursquare, Gowalla or other location-based networks, he said. The group has one new project up — it’s a Seattle, Washington-based website that can send you a text message, in real time, when a 911 call is placed within a certain radius of you.”

Read the full article at cnn.com

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Tue Aug 24 2010, 6:18pm

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Tropo is Easy!

Chris Mattieu writes: “Reflecting on the event, I wanted to share an interesting observation that I had during the course of the contest. The winners of the iPad, Amber Case and Aaron Parecki, were not originally in the contest. They were hanging out with us at the event working on their totally awesome side project called GeoLoqi. Halfway through the event, Aaron looks in my direction and says that he is interested in integrating Tropo SMS with GeoLoqi. Several minutes later his iPhone buzzes with an SMS and he looks at me and Amber and says, “It worked! GeoLoqi just me an SMS notification triggered by my location!” This was certainly very exciting for all of us but it the event gets more interesting…

Amber and Aaron left to get some sleep and came back in the morning for breakfast with an idea to enter the contest. Their idea was ChatterCast, a mashup of Tropo, Socrata’s data.seattle.gov, Instamapper, and GeoLoqi services. Basically ChatterCast subscribes your phone to real-time 911 call data provided by http://data.seattle.gov. ChatterCast alerts you based on your location of 911 events happening around you.

This is a great example of how someone with an idea can not only win a contest only after getting started in the final hours but how anyone with an idea can change the world. Tropo’s ease of use makes it super easy to communicate with telephones via voice and SMS or even IM and Twitter with a couple of lines a code. There’s no reason not to add telephone support to your existing web applications to make them even more powerful in this mobile and social age we live in today.”

Read the full article on blog.tropo.com

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Wed Jul 14 2010, 4:16pm

By Aaron Parecki

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Portland Mercury – Tonight Recess Gallery Presents Social_Net_Works

Matt Stangel writes: “l’m most intrigued by Aaron Parecki and Amber Case’s GPS-generated self-portraits. Parecki has been logging his location every seven seconds via a mobile GPS tracker for the last two years; and for the past six months, Case has been doing the same. Using the GPS data gathered, experiential portraits have been generated, representing the artists’ lives not in literal pictures of the body, but in images of where the body has been— plotting the artists’ movements onto maps, and color-coding these movements under variables like time of day, speed of movement, etc.. See some examples here, or stop by Recess tonight.”

Read the full article at portlandmercury.com

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Thu Jun 3 2010, 11:11am

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Oregon Business Magazine – On the Map and In the Future

Excerpt: “Open Source Bridge is a completely volunteer-run conference dedicated to the concept of “open source citizenship:” in which developers learn from one another and connect across projects.

Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case and PHP developer Aaron Parecki presented one such project of their devising, a yet-to-be-released program called “Geoloqi.”

Geoloqi will track a user’s location at all times, and use this data to provide various services. A user can leave himself a note to receive when he gets to a certain location, for example, a reminder to pick up batteries when he’s in the store. The user can send a real-time map to a friend or client, to take the mystery out of when he or she will arrive. People meeting will know exactly what time to expect you if they know exactly where you are—you can even set up an automatic message to send to your boss if the software can tell you’re going to be late for work.

One of the goals of Geoloqi is to automate a certain amount of existence. Case and Parecki seek to make the interface “ambient,” that is, require very little actual interaction with the software in order for it to work. For example, if you set up Geoloqi to turn your lights on at your house when you arrive, you won’t need to interface with the light switch. If you have an automatic alert that will give you the next bus departure time when you arrive at an airport, you won’t need to seek that information out on your phone”.

Read the full article at oregonbusiness.com